Chanzá

Name: Chanzá: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

Chanzá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malawi than in any other country.

rarermore common

MWMalawi≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
ZMZambia≈1 in 44K
PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 83K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Malawi (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 45 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Chanza

Locally spelled Chanza in US United States, ES Spain, MW Malawi and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chanzá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chanzá is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
MW Malawi	#297	≈2,400 est.	≈1 in 9K	—	Chanza	10
ZA South Africa	—	≈540 est.	≈1 in 105K	—	Chanza	14
ZM Zambia	—	≈400 est.	≈1 in 44K	1	Chanza	5
ES Spain	—	290	1 in 172K	290	Chanza	41
US United States	—	109	1 in 3.1M	121	Chanza	45
PR Puerto Rico	—	≈38 est.	≈1 in 83K	—	Chanza	4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chanzá is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, Spain
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Chanza
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Chanza
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Chanza
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Chanza, Chanzà

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chanzá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Chanzá have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Chanzá in Malawi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chanza.
How common is the name Chanzá?: In Spain, the national register counted 290 people named Chanzá, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
How common is Chanzá compared with other names?: In Malawi, Chanzá is the 297th most common surname of 6,972 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chanz%C3%A1

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chanzá” — the 297th most common surname in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)